The Herald (also styled as Barossa Herald, Barossa and Light Herald, or Barossa & Light Herald) is a weekly newspaper published in Tanunda, South Australia. With its earliest beginnings in 1860, it has been published under the Herald banner since 2005. It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media.
The Barossa and Light Herald began publication on 10 May 1951 after Leslie Tilbrook (who had owned the Kapunda Herald since September 1923) sold the newspaper.[1] A new publication was then created by the merger of:
In 1981, the newspaper then absorbed the Eudunda Courier (9 February 1922 – 15 April 1981).[6] The newspaper was later taken over by the Rural Press in the 1990s and was a part of the Fairfax Media group.[5] In May 2005 the title was again shortened, this time to simply Herald, though the longer variants of the previous name (Barossa Herald, Barossa and Light Herald, or Barossa & Light Herald) are commonly used as well.
In 2012, the Herald claimed the largest circulation for a country newspaper in South Australia at 21,400 copies distributed weekly.[5] By 2018, the average issue readership for the print version was calculated to be 29,000 [7] Like other Rural Press publications, the newspaper is also available online.[8]
The State Library of South Australia carries microfiche copies of older versions of the newspaper.[9]